Yep I knew it.

The phone call came Thursday afternoon. The spot on my dad's lung "lit up" on the PET scan, indicating cancer. I absolutely thought it was cancer all along and expected the phone call to go the way it did. The doctor did not shock me.

He will have a biopsy in the next 2 weeks to determine if the spot is actual lung cancer, or colon cancer that has spread to the lung.  This will determine how they treat that spot.  If it is lung cancer they will go after it with radiation when my dad is on breaks from the chemo.  If it is colon cancer, they will hope the chemo will shrink it, since the drugs he'll get are targeted to attack that kind of cancer cell.  

Chemotherapy should start in the next two weeks as well.  As soon as the doctors know the plan for the lung, they will get started on dealing with the colon cancer.

As for how my dad is dealing with the news. Its hard to tell.  The doctor called him right before she called me.  He was very concerned about making it downstairs to the ham and cabbage dinner being served in his building's community room so we didn't chat for long.  If you know my dad, you know that food taking priority over everything else is a pretty normal thing. If ignoring what he just heard and heading off to eat a good meal is what he wants to do, I'm not going to judge.  The guy with the cancer gets to do whatever he wants.